09-23-2021, 04:56 PM | #1 |
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Are E-Books Making Us Stupid?
International Journal of Digital Library Systems, 3(2), 27-47, April-June 2012 27
Are E-Books Making Us Stupid? Why Electronic Collections Mean Trouble for Libraries and Their Patrons Nancy McCormack, Queen’s University, Canada E-BOOKS AND LIBRARIES Summary
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09-23-2021, 08:43 PM | #2 |
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From my casual scanning of what the OP quoted it sounds like she's talking about web pages, not e-books. The title sounds like the typical alarmist headline that CNN would use.
From my experience the bigger problem is that young people prefer watching a youtube video rather than read a web page or a book. |
09-23-2021, 10:33 PM | #3 |
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The problem lies with the low affordability of e-readers. The low-end devices still use lo-res fragile glass Carta screens, making scrolling and marking text unpractical.
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09-23-2021, 11:35 PM | #4 |
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Why reference an alarmist "woe for the good ole days" article from nearly 10 years ago?
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09-24-2021, 12:20 AM | #5 |
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It's an old click-bait article. |
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It’s true a decent ereader is a similar price to cheap tablet, but a laptop or popular Apple or Samsung tablet can be x5 the price. No doubt Amazon could give them away if you signed up to a 2 or 3 year subscription, but that ought to be opposed. It would destroy innovation and competition. |
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09-24-2021, 11:36 AM | #8 |
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We live in a world where Toddlers in Tiaras, Amish Mafia and The Real Housewives of... are things and The Transformers have become a blockbuster franchise.
And we're worried that it is e-books that are making us stupider? |
09-24-2021, 12:26 PM | #9 |
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Not mention living in a world where drivers have to be specifically told with signage that the road they're driving on has no edgelines.
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09-24-2021, 12:39 PM | #10 |
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Item 4, 5, and 6 aren't necessary consequences of ebooks, they describe how unbridled capitalism is bad for reading and learning.
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Back on topic, I used to work on some complicated stuff, and I found that reading the documents and specs on the computer made me dumber compared to reading printouts on paper. It took pushing my brain to the limits to notice the difference. I always had the feeling that my brain was doing something else when staring at the screen, and that I could focus better when looking at paper. So, such studies fit with my personal experience. However, for 99.9% of my reading where I didn't have to think as hard, reading off of a monitor was fine. Since then, I find that E-Ink displays aren't as distracting as computer monitors, so I do a lot of my spec/document reading on my ereaders. |
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09-24-2021, 01:27 PM | #12 |
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What was the question again?
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I assume you also don't believe in smartphone "addiction", either. |
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09-24-2021, 02:00 PM | #15 |
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Don't judge it solely by its title.
The article is good because it overviews e-book adoption and how most people aren't habituated to it yet. Last edited by Geremia; 09-24-2021 at 02:07 PM. |
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